Rhetoric

McDonald's Clowns Around With Moms and Words

by Diane Farsetta — June 11, 2007 - 3:56pm

In an attempt to deflect criticism that its fast food makes children fat, McDonald's is recruiting mothers as "quality correspondents" to observe and report on its operations.

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Advertising Age, June 8, 2007

Seven Papers Axe Coulter's Column

by Bob Burton — March 10, 2007 - 4:09am

In the last week at least seven newspapers have dropped the syndicated column of conservative firebrand Ann Coulter. Speaking at the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

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Editor & Publisher, March 9, 2007

Lieberman, Bush and the Generals: The PR campaign around the troop "surge" in Iraq

by Conor Kenny — January 3, 2007 - 1:19pm
  • Topics: Iraq, U.S. Congress, Public Relations, Rhetoric

    • President Bush is expected to make an announcement soon about his plan for Iraq, but a PR war has been raging for several weeks to prepare the ground for a "surge" in troop levels for Baghdad and Iraq. Bush and surrogates Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen.

    Neocontrarians

    by Sheldon Rampton — November 22, 2006 - 11:32pm

    Neoconservative war hawk Ken Adelman has gone public with an attack on the Bush administration's handling of Iraq, saying that "the President is ultimately responsible" for what Adelman now calls a "debacle." The Washington Post notes that criticisms now coming from neocons such as Adelman and Richard Perle are the "most striking" examples of trend

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    Washington Post, November 20, 2006

    "Victory in Iraq": The PR Behind Bush's Favorite Slogan

    by John Stauber — November 2, 2006 - 9:50pm
  • Topics: Iraq, Rhetoric

    • The most recent USA Today/Gallup poll indicates that 55% of Americans think things in Iraq are "out of control," and a similar majority favors withdrawing all U.S. troops from the country either immediately or within a year. This explains why George Bush's favorite slogan - 'stay the course' - has been tossed into the trash bin of political rhetoric.

    Congresspedia Documents the Iraq War Votes (and the $87 billion "Flip-Flop")

    by Conor Kenny — October 31, 2006 - 3:42pm
  • Topics: Iraq, U.S. Congress, Rhetoric

    • As part of our efforts to cut to the facts of issues in Congress, Congresspedia has gone back through the major votes on the Iraq War and summarized what was at stake in each. In this election season, we were reminded of the brouhaha over the 2004 remark by Sen.

    Zigging and Zagging on Cutting and Running

    by Sheldon Rampton — October 11, 2006 - 10:06am
  • Topics: Iraq, Rhetoric

    • The Bush administration's use of the term "cut and run" to caricature opponents of the war in Iraq is yet another example of the attention that America's war party pays to rhetorical repetition and linguistic framing at the expense of realistic discourse and analysis. Bush himself has taken to using this catchprase repeatedly.

    War is the New Peace

    by Sheldon Rampton — July 23, 2006 - 5:21pm

    "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."—Tacitus
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    Washington Post, July 21, 2006

    None Dare Call It Genocide

    by Sheldon Rampton — July 16, 2006 - 12:24pm

    "What happens when you refer to Turkey's 1915-1923 genocide of Armenians, accurately, as 'genocide'?" asks the Los Angeles Times. "In Turkey, you face a possible three-year jail term, even if it wasn't you using the term but a character in your novel. In the United States, you just lose your job as ambassador to Armenia."

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    Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2006
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